Word: kosovar
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...bombing was intentional: while we take American benevolence for granted, residents of other countries may look at continued U.S. dominance with apprehension. Any policy that shows a willingness to use force to achieve humanitarian ends frightens countries with human rights problems. Intervention on behalf of the Kosovar Albanians, the reasoning goes, could be a model for intervention on behalf of Taiwan or Tibet...
Overseas Albanian fund raising, on a much smaller scale, has been going on since the early part of the decade, when Milosevic began cracking down on the province. From 1991 onward Bukoshi's "government" was collecting a tax of 3% from most of the estimated 600,000 Kosovar Albanians who worked in Western Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland. (Patriotic Kosovars were encouraged to set up standing orders with their banks to pay the tax every month...
...Brussels for a NATO briefing. But midway through General Wesley Clark's discussion of how a peacekeeping force could be structured, Albright got called out. Foreign Minister Lamberto Dini of Italy was phoning with the somewhat surprising news that Milosevic had decided to allow Ibrahim Rugova, the Kosovar Albanian leader, to leave the country. On Serbian TV five weeks ago, Rugova had criticized NATO's bombing, presumably speaking under duress. Albright wanted to make sure that once he arrived in Italy, he would support NATO's position. She dispatched Ambassador Christopher Hill to be there when he landed in Rome...
...Ministry of Information insists that in relating the accounts of Kosovar refugees in Albania, it's the American media that distorts the facts...
...Right now the Kosovar refugees are sufferingterribly. This is a topic A, page one story now.Six weeks, it'll be on page nine," says LeonLonstein, president and founder of NEARO...